Posts by stu 4 775 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
I don't see how that will change the chance of my phone being nicked by one iota ?
So - they won't be able to use the phone - I don't see how that help me - they've still nicked it.
Oh yeh 'if everyone did it blablabla'. well they don't - so that's pretty academic.
Usually these invites have a subtle hint in them ?
Here we have a bunch of colours (ios7 shades) and 'alot to cover'
I'd have thought coloured ipads are the most likely, maybe a return of coloured macs.
yeh I know - ground breaking....but it would make more sense than most of the rumours, which seem to involve the need to innovate...
"You mean a 1kg payload like a couple of books? You mean an open space like the Outback? So you mean the plan would work exactly as described, but apart from that it's mince? Yeah, good point."
yup, payload fine.... open space like the outback... if bookshop also in middle of outback, and a max distance of about 3 miles from book buyer...
no ?
then it's mince.
I made up an 'oculus drift' myself back in 2010.
Basically I got a shoe box, fitted an iphone 4 in the end of it, and fitted it with several pairs of 1 quid reading glasses from poundland over the top of each other till I got the necessary diopter so that it appeared to be a massive TV in front of your eyes when strapped to your head.
It worked well for normal 2d content, and for 3d (split screen on the iphone), you just fitted a card in middle and your eyes adjusted and gave nice 3d image.
with the iphone accelerometers/gyros movement also worked well.
all my mates said it was a bloody stupid idea... and 'if it was that easy someone else will have done it'
hey ho.
It's far more likely that this was created during a fight between superheros - perhaps superman and cyclops.
Have they checked that they didn't shoot some of the movies there in the past* ?
*I am assuming they must shoot the superhero type movies in the middle of deserts somewhere for safety.
Yup, as a kid I dreamed of being able to readily be able to build stuff you had thought up as easily as you can now.
I have been an arduino junky for a year or so now - you cannae beat em - get em off ebay for 2 quid for an arduino mini pro about the size of 2 10p pieces and you have all the power and IO you need to do pretty much anything you can think of.
Last weekend, I made a sous vide from a 10 quid slow cooker, temp sensor, 240v relay and an arduino.
This weekend I'm gonna automate my house blinds with a few little motors and servos and arduinos.
(I also fly quadcopters based around arduinos though I didn't program them!)
I'd put arduino up there with 3d printing as one of the new disruptive technologies out there.
If you've not tried arduino I'd urge you to give it a try - arduino.cc. All you need to get started is an arduino nano from ebay for 6 quid - that comes with usb and cable - plug it in and get coding. digital in/out, analogue in/out, serial comms, PWM, etc, etc.
It is incredible to me that 'Obamacare' is contentious. There cannot be a country in Europe where the 'Breaking Bad' scenario could exist, and yet it is very much the norm in the 'land of the free'.
I'm currently reading Bill Bryson's One Summer: America 1927 and it is a fascinating read. In many ways that time defined the america that still exists today - one of corporations controlling the people, politics being controlled by the rich, and the illusion of freedom almost sitting in for religion as the 'safety net' that placates the plebeians into servitude.
though easyjet are in the wrong here, the bloke does appear to be right up his own arse according to his webpage.
" I am currently researching what “activates” the active dot in the active/pathetic dot matrix within the context of cyber-legitimacy"
uhu. that's very interesting sir, we have upgraded you from this flight - you will now be departing in our brand new Golgafinchan aircraft, and will be one of the first to fly it... step this way.
@RTNavy: well.. you can of course - search for hackintosh. pretty straight forward. not in keeping with the intent of the licence, but inkeeping with the wording if you slap an apple sticker on the resulting machine.
I ran hackintoshes for a few years as my main desktop PC before switching to imac27.
And of course, the pleasure of osx and timemachine, meant all I needed to do was restore my hackintosh onto my new imac27 and that was the job done.
anyone else have this ?
I remember getting it around 96 or so for my PC.
Basically an ISA card, which then connected via composite video into your VCR.
It recorded the data visually on the VHS tapes as black and white squares.
At the time my HD was 2GB, and it allowed me to back it all up on one VHS tape.
Considering that HDs cost a fortune then (I'd bought my P90, 16MB memory, 2GB HD for 1800 pounds the year before).
Ah here it is:
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/general/276535/top-10-worst-products-ever/2
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/use-a-vcr-to-store-4gb-of-data-for-about-a-dollar-76128042.html
A bit harsh - I found it pretty good at the time considering there was no cheap alternatives.
I can see the team on the ground -
Bruce: Release the rocket!
Bruce: ok bruce. rocket away!
Bruce: Right.... on my count Bruce - I want you to fire the scamjet bit you fitted... 5...4...3...
Bruce: er... I thought you fitted that bit.
Bruce: no. no. I told you to do it. I remember....
Bruce: ah.....
I've been a mac house for 5 years now (previously anti-mac).
I bought a cheap asus x401 a month ago from ebuyer (insanely cheap) to run my webcam security cameras on 24/7 as it'd let me save power and let the main osx server and raid array sleep during the week when I am away on business.
It had windows 8 on it. It was utterly hellish, plus of course it had to usually bloadware crap on it.
No probs I thought - I'll just fire my old copy of windows 7 on there - given it me free for 'hosting a windows 7 party' before I left the windows arena.....
holly christ - what a bloody palaver!!!!
boot of USB DVD ? will it f*ck.
fecking about with their terrible implementation of EFI... looking on the net, changing bios settings, trying again... net full of people with similar tales.. I mean how can you make something so hard that has been mainstream easy for nearly 15 years!!! Just let me boot of the f*cking DVD for christsake!!!
Eventually after probably 10+ manhours I got it done - only possible by switching EFI off.
utter utter mince - if I'd known I'd have bought a 400 quid 5 year old macbook and used that - I'd have been able to stick windows 7 on that in 30 minutes.
stu
yup, you cannae beat a protrek.
Mine is 10 years old - original battery (solar recharging on a transparent cell ontop of the multi level screen.
Titanium, bullet proof.
I use it for flying and walking (alti), diving (just time), compass (flying).
I have a £3500 titanium breitling too, but I find 9 days out of 10 I chose the casio to wear.
I was never an audiophile , but I never found dolby B on prerecorded tapes to be much cop. Just sounded flat and muffled.
But use B or C on a specific tape deck to record, and the playback on the same tape deck was very nice indeed. Especially in the early days of CDs... when taping em was the only option (rather than burning a CD I mean).
I only ever had mid range Akai or Technics desks mind you, no Nakamichis, but it worked for me.
stu
I'm building an arduino one just now - just needs arduino (3 quid), 433 tx/rx (2 quid).
that's about it - it can then talk to cheap as chips remote power sockets you can pick up on ebay for a fiver.
stick ethernet or wifi board onto arduino (5 quid) and run some a basic webserver on it, and you get all you need to control stuff.
Plus you get the benefit of easily being able to make more complex recievers to do whatever you want - another arduino,433 tx/rx is all you need - plus whatever else you want it to do - mp3 module, relays, stepper motors... the world is yer lobster. It would be relatively trivial to extend the code on your arduino rxs to enable a mesh too if you had a particularily large coverage requirement.
I do also have a raspPi I play with, and I know they are very different fish, but I don't think the arduino gets as much attention as it deserves - even as an educational tool I think it's far more interesting for kids to use and make stuff do things than a raspPi. and much cheaper too.
16Mhz is still a hell of a lot of oomph, and there's very little I've found it can't cope with - for example the most advanced open source automatic flight controller (Arducopter) runs on a 2 quid arduino (plus a few auxiliary sensors).
If anyone is interested in this sort of stuff, I'd urge them to try an ardiuno.
Ok, if we are doing analogies/similies how about:
Elop = Jobs (both steves so that bit is easy)
Jobs/Elop leaves apple/MS, starts nextstep/nokia(ok..breaks down at that bit)
Apple/MS goes down shitter with crap machines/windows8
Jobs/Elop returns and does reverse take over of Apple/MS
Jobs/Elop moves Apple/MS to completely new operating system (OSX/symbian)
Yes... I predict we will all be using symbianOS in 5 years time.....
I am now a confirmed athiest anti-theist, and wasn't really a christian when a kid either, but 2 of the best holidays I had were with a friend at organised 'christian week' camp things in england.
We had a full week of electronics (building a whole host of different things that we wanted to), and software coding,
This was back in 1984/85 so it was coding my spectrum and amstrad, and the electronics was things like building infrared sensors, and fm transmitters and working them out in vero-board, etc.
It was great fun. And to be fair to he happy clappers, all the singing and christian stuff was confined to the evenings and optional.
I don't know who arranged them at the time but it was some national organisation - they were excellently organised with great accomodation (in a private girls boarding school in the SE) and if still going I'd recommend it to any 12-16yo techie.
stu
Yes occasionally mine will still freeze up for no reason even after various firmware upgrades which is a pain.
I use mine paragliding, paramotoring and skydiving ( and on quadcopters, cycling and scuba...!)
Admittedly my flying ceilings are about 13k so nowt like as high as Lohan is going.
You can easily power it via the 5v usb rather than via the expensive auxiliary battery bak-pak. I use a 3s 1200 lipo and UBEC when flying paramotors. that gives me roughly 3-4 hours of additional power. As an added benefit, seeing as the 5v also goes to charge the battery it means that it warms up the camera as well via the internal lipo charging.
And while you are at it - why not take the analogue video feed out of it too - and fire it through a 5.8hgz video transmitter ?
I get about 4000 feet vertically with my quadcopter with a 600mw tx and omni directional tx, but with a high db gain antenna (since you are effectively going to be 'below' all the time directional focus shouldnt be too much of an issue) you should be able to get that up to 40k or so I'd have thought at least... for some real time video!
Anyway I hope you are going to record in 2.7k..... you know it makes sense!
Also make sure you have prores on - we want that bitrate maxed out!
stu
yes they have.
my grandfather is blind and uses it every day. provided by the RNIB.
primarly for their incredibly extensive range of talking books, it also plays audio CDs and its large buttons and audio feedback make it easy for him to use.
And it's about the size of a large (you know the big old cheap ones) portable compact disc player .
Er... I assume that was tested with the 'trunk' at the front empty.
What if it was full ? What if it was full of, say, a section of massive pieces of jaggy stee,l you were transporting somewhere ?
Though removing the engine, they have surely added a new variable to a crash ? (not new - I mean other mid/rear engine cars have front boots... I'm just saying...)
anyway electric/all cars are still fecking stupid - If we got rid of the dumb electric bike laws in this country, a safe electric bicycle could do 30mph and 30 miles of a charge (currently limited to 15mph). That would cover a large percentage of peoples commuting needs... would be cheap (<1000 quid), no stupid massive batteries, or transporting 90% dead weight around, etc. etc....
stu (3 electric bikes... though i do also have 3 cars... so not claiming green credentials - just saying)
CNET reported it to.
The app market (iphone and android) are FULL of surveillance apps like this.
The only twist seems to be they are suggesting that this be the prime and only reason for using the phone when it is older plus doing it over 3g rather than wifi... which is absurd - even the older iphone is worth 3x what a wifi camera with the same capability has.
I run just such an app on an android phone I leave in my motorhome when I'm oot and aboot for security.
yeh - lets call it short take off and landing.
I don't think VTOL is the only thing this is selling as is it ? it's the 'personal transport' angle they are going for.
And a paramotor is, I would argue, as practical (i.e. not at all), and a damn site safer and cheaper.
I can't see any applications where VTOL is really required outside of military. As a flying toy which is surely what it is - I don't really get it.
It would also not be legal to fly in the UK as not foot launch-able - unless you are superman.
christ, It's not like you have to have it stapled to your head FFS.
I have a pair of MOD Lives. Pretty similar spec wise.
I wrote software for them to allow me to use them flying my paraglider and paramotor - speed, alti, wind speed, etc.
Google glass offers similar benefits for certain applications/activities.
No one is forcing you to wear it 24 hours a day.
>You appear to be under the misapprehension that there are buses everywhere to carry the idiots. This is not the case. I live 7 miles from the nearest bus stop.
Provided you are not an idiot, that is irrelevant... all we need to do is prove that all idiots live close to bus stations, and we can close this case!
I was travelling in the passenger seat, with my grandfather (99 last week) driving about 15 years ago in his British Leyland Mini Metro.
He'd previously mentioned his eyes weren't quite as good as they used to be, but didn't make a big thing of it, so didn't seem too bad...
We came around a corner, and there was a black and white traffic cone on the the left side of the road.
"Oh my god - there's a penguin!"
Suffice to say, we relieved him of the keys from that day... for 2 reasons!
Plus, for most of the possible use cases, a small quadcopter would be better.
For example - the fire use case - has your 'spherical camera' landing in the middle of the fire - so you're gonna go through a lot of camera.
With the new brushless gimbal controller that have just came out, footage from quadcopters (like mine) has become incredibly stable - stable enough that they can even be used with zoom lens camera for example.
For example (no zoom but shows stability of footage):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svDJU0gBWBg
These can be built for around 250 quid now - are very easy to fly, and in most cases (e.g. search and rescue, fires, etc) would be far better than the spherical camera I'd have thought.
"You don't believe in Allah, they don't believe in Jehova. Neither of your religions allow for a dualistic approach where you are both worshipping the same God"
I reckon you knew what you were doing there JHW. - a troll for the non thinking athiests perhaps....?
I do think we antitheiests fell into our own trap by sometimes talking about the 3 main monothiest religions praises the same god.. I mean... how can we tell he's the same god ? he (probably) doesn't exists, and there is no evidence for him... how do you scientifically prove therefore that they are the same imaginary entity 'believed in' by seperate groups of people. I wondered if Dicky D just says it to wind them up more.....
It's strange that we are now in a situation where consumers can record video quality at a far higher quality, both in resolution (bit rate per frame) and temporally.
I shoot all my video in 1080p60 these days when I can (one of my pet annoymances is that SONY still restricts their cameras to 'PAL' in the UK. i.e. 50fps... even though the word 'PAL' is meaningless now.
Watching 60p footage in a laptop, HDTV far exceeds anything broadcast.
Personally I'm hoping that these are just more nails in the coffin of broadcast TV - so - broadcast TV can't do 1080p60 at 28MBs... who cares - our computers can - our compression formats (H264) can, so stuff broadcast and download and play.
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